Poems

As I Walked Out One Evening As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. […]

As We Like It Certainly our city with its byres of poverty down to The river’s edge, its cathedral, its engines, its dogs; Here is the […]

At Last the Secret is Out At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end, the delicious story is ripe to […]

At the Party Unrhymed, unrhythmical, the chatter goes: Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. Beneath each topic tunelessly discussed The ground-bass is reciprocal […]

Atlantis Being set on the idea Of getting to Atlantis, You have discovered of course Only the Ship of Fools is Making the voyage this year, […]

August 1968 The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About […]

Base Words Are Uttered Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood, But noble platitudes:–ah, there’s a case […]

Canzone When shall we learn, what should be clear as day, We cannot choose what we are free to love? Although the mouse we banished yesterday […]

Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue Did you ever hear about Cocaine Lil? She lived in Cocaine town on Cocaine hill, She had a cocaine dog and […]

Dear, Though the Night Is Gone Dear, though the night is gone, Its dream still haunts today, That brought us to a room Cavernous, lofty as […]